Another aspect that has helped a lot is taking a b-complex vitamin every day. B-Complex has two major benefits: it aids in the energy recovery during food metabolism, maintaining one's energy level, but the major benefit for developers is the reduction in nerve sheath inflammation. There are times when I am doing some heavy, redundant motions, like when working on 3D animations, the repetitive mouse use for multiple days can wreak my wrist and that "mouse fatigue" spot in your upper back. When I know I'm going to be abusing my wrists like that, I make sure to have B-Complex each day and for a few days after - for the reduction in inflammation and the resulting continued wrist health.
I appreciate your thanks. I could write a book about my career and maintaining health in both physical and mental aspects - being a developer can be a hell of a mental game too. If I were not so busy writing code, I probably would. Developing my ability to live like this has taken decades, and now in my middle 50's I am peaking in multiple aspects: I know how to code an immense number of highly complex things, my mental game is such that I am coding like water pouring, and my work is offering me the freedom to use everything in the creation of a new flagship application for the company. I'm simply having too much fun and getting too much done to write about it at length. I do post on Quora.com quite a bit though.
Great tip about B complex. I didn't know it could heal muscle fatigue and makes healing faster. This is great tip for almost all programmers who risk RSI at some point in their life.
Anyway yes it no ordinary thing you're in such good health and are putting 10 hours a day at 50 years while some of us are struggling lot younger.
I'm sure you already have done quite a bit of research that lays ahead of me. A book does sound like a big commitment but if you have a blog I'd surely hope you would put your story and what you did to fix yourself and how you're so productive.
A lot of people would be inspired and helped by it I'm sure.
P.S. just read this book called 12 rules for life (huge bestseller) and the author starts it by saying so this book started as a result of my quora post :)
I appreciate your thanks. I could write a book about my career and maintaining health in both physical and mental aspects - being a developer can be a hell of a mental game too. If I were not so busy writing code, I probably would. Developing my ability to live like this has taken decades, and now in my middle 50's I am peaking in multiple aspects: I know how to code an immense number of highly complex things, my mental game is such that I am coding like water pouring, and my work is offering me the freedom to use everything in the creation of a new flagship application for the company. I'm simply having too much fun and getting too much done to write about it at length. I do post on Quora.com quite a bit though.